The past comes to the rescue as a Washington, D.C., reporter / talk show host and a spiritual medium turn back the clock on self-help, pointing readers in the direction of history in order to help them heal from physical, psychological, and spiritual ailments.
In this thoroughly researched book, Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner give credence to the pioneers who risked their lives, homes, and reputations to bring us some of the most effective alternative treatments in self-help and spirituality known today. In our search for understanding our minds, bodies, and spirits, we have become more open than ever to “alternative” treatments like homeopathy, prayer mediation, herbal remedies, psychic mediums, Eastern medicine, and many others.
When Ellen Ratner experienced chronic anxiety, she sought out a holistic psychiatrist who treated her using a little-known science called Coherent Breathing. It worked. Ratner dug deeper into this science and discovered invented and cultivated treatments that were so ahead of their time and far away from traditional medicine that their practitioners were deemed witches or charlatans. But, still, they persevered.
Together, Ratner and Gehman explore the lives, ideologies, philosophies, and intellect of hundreds of history’s greatest healers and pioneers, among them names we know, like Appleseed and Mesmer, and others, who we will soon meet in the pages of this enlightening book.
In addition to No One Dies in Lilydale…you must get this Upon purchasing No One Dies in Lily Dale, I also purchased this book as I was completely taken aback by Anne Gehmann, one of the minister/mediums featured in LilyDale and her story. I am a cancer patient and little did I know this book would have a forward written by an oncologist with twenty years experiece. Get this book everyone. The book is not written for people who have health problems, yet it helps us who do! There is something for everyone in it! Simplicity, faith and going back to…
Refreshing and Informative It is so refreshing to read a book on self empowerment that brings a unique look at the origins of self-development practice. By looking back to the mind/body/spirit pioneers of the 1800’s, many of whom risked being ostracized or worse by presenting their unorthodox treatments and practices, we begin to understand that there are fundamental philosophies that serve human development, regardless of the context or era. The authors have elegantly given us a glimpse into these healer’s ideologies…